Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } The Member Education Specialist (Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach) leads group and 1:1 sessions, virtually or in person, to help participants improve health and manage chronic conditions through lifestyle changes. The role focuses on creating a supportive, engaging environment while guiding personalized care plans based on the six pillars of lifestyle medicine (nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, social connection, and risk avoidance). Success requires strong communication, group facilitation skills, and a genuine commitment to helping others improve their well-being.

Job Summary:

Presents, and educates on health education programs and services. This includes coordinating and delivering trainings or other educational encounters, assisting in maintaining and updating educational and training resources, and helping to collect and analyze data from classes and programs. Roles in this subfunction also assess and understand the individual needs of trainees, both from a classroom perspective and a broader population perspective.

Essential Responsibilities:

Pursues effective relationships with others by sharing resources, information, and knowledge with coworkers and members. Listens to, addresses, and seeks performance feedback. Pursues self-development; acknowledges strengths and weaknesses based on career goals and takes appropriate development action to leverage / improve them. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work. Assesses and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome. Completes work assignments by applying up-to-date knowledge in subject area to meet deadlines; follows procedures and policies, and applies data and resources to support projects or initiatives with limited guidance and/or sponsorship. Collaborates with others to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports the completion of priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies and speaks up for ways to address improvement opportunities. Helps assesses and understands member needs by: helping identify individual needs, interests, abilities, and a variety of learning styles; adjusting teaching style to meet the needs of participants, to create an inclusive environment which exceeds the needs of diverse individuals; and assisting other health education staff to refer members to additional health promotion resources/services, when appropriate. Helps collect, analyze, and report on data by: helping to obtain and enter valid, reliable data such as attendance, utilization, referrals, evaluations, and course assignment scores; helping analyze data and find areas for improvement in the course; and helping present data and findings from courses taught to keep relevant parties informed about course progress and initiatives, including department leaders and other stakeholders. Helps educate and train members by: providing evidence-based education information to members in single interactions (e.g., a class, a group or one-on-one encounter); ensuring members learn about a requested content area by providing resources for continued education; creating a welcoming atmosphere that encourages learning when interacting with members; and independently providing information or resources that help translate evidence-based concepts into simple and understandable information for members.

Helps design training by:

helping design interactive activities, assignments, and testing appropriate for the goals of each encounter and/or course learning outcomes; helping develop high-quality, culturally responsive multi-media health education materials; and helping identify content changes and collaborating to update member-facing materials.

Maintains resources by:

recommending updates to multimedia health information resources; maintaining the database of educational resources and materials independently; and ordering new educational resources and materials independently.

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

(Core) Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management Attention to

Detail Business Knowledge Communication Critical Thinking Cross-Group Collaboration Decision Making Dependability Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support Drives Results Facilitation Skills Health Care Industry Influencing Others Integrity Learning Agility Organizational Savvy Problem Solving Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall Teamwork Topic-Specific Communication Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

(Functional)

Business Relationship Management Computer Literacy Conflict Resolution Data Entry Information Gathering Presentation Skills Written Communication Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Counseling, Education, Psychology, Nursing, Nutrition or a directly related field, OR Minimum three (3) years of experience in health-related education or a directly related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

One (1) year of experience teaching classes or conducting training programs.